Luri language

Luri
لری
"Luri" written in both Northern Luri and Southern Luri in the Perso-Arabic script with the Nastaliq font
Pronunciation	Southern Luri pronunciation: [loriː]
Native to	Iran; a few villages in eastern Iraq
Region	Southern Zagros Mountains
Ethnicity	Lurs
Native speakers	4–5 million (2012) 1.3 million (2007)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Luri–Dezfuli? Luri
Early forms	Old Persian Middle Persian
Dialects	Central Luri (Minjai) Bakhtiari Southern Luri
Writing system	Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `lrc` – Northern Luri `bqi` – Bakhtiari `luz` – Southern Luri
Glottolog	`luri1252`

Luri (لری) is a Southwestern Iranian langauge, existing as a dialect continuum, spoken by the Lur people in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. The Luri dialects are descended from Middle Persian and are Central Luri, Bakhtiari, and Southern Luri. This language is spoken mainly by the Bakhtiari and the Northern and Southern Lurs (Lorestan, Ilam, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Mamasani, Sepidan, Bandar Ganaveh, Bandar Deylam) in Iran.